Welcome to the official website of the Rhode Island Young Republicans

- A MESSAGE FROM YOUNG REPUBLICAN CHAIRMAN Travis Rowley -

The RIYRs wish to confuse no one when it comes to who we are, and exactly what we represent – who we support, and who we defy.

The RIYRs are a body of Rhode Islanders, primarily in their 20s and 30s, representing people of many different stripes – police officers and firemen, moms and dads, entrepreneurs and business owners, teachers and students, lawyers and doctors. Under the name “Republican” we represent a diverse crowd of unabashed conservatives, libertarians, and traditionalists, who all defend the American values of individualism, freedom, capitalism, and a moral order.

The RIYRs gather once a month for informal events at various restaurants/bars throughout the State, often inviting guest speakers to discuss Rhode Island’s future, and the role Republicans should play in shaping that direction.

We primarily seek to increase our membership, and educate as many Rhode Islanders as possible about the recklessness of their current government. We are in the midst of launching projects such as the Ocean State 38, the Republican Business Guide, and the Republican Draft – all fundraising efforts to support the RIGOP. In short, we are building a political army – an army comprised of thousands of volunteers, donors – and most importantly – voters.

Residing within one of the highest-taxed states in the country, a state also marked by the nation’s largest entitlement expenditures, members of the RI Young Republicans are attempting to reverse what many Rhode Islanders view as irreversible – a dysfunctional socialized democracy controlled by the Democrat Party, an all-powerful entity corrupted by its ties to special interests, and enslaved by a leftist ideology that instructs its members to solve all problems by bloating governmental authority, and constricting the individual liberty of the citizenry.

Big-government liberalism has done to the State of Rhode Island what Republicans have always warned that it would do – create an unsustainable societal order that repels corporations, suppresses the entrepreneur, and drives native Rhode Islanders to other parts of the country. Yet, today, in the thick of a recession that has bankrupted our expensive government and has a record amount of citizens applying for RI public benefits, the common elected official in Rhode Island still only knows one method of curing the State’s ailment – increase taxes even more.

It is often said that many Rhode Islanders are unfamiliar with Republicans. Well, to find them, just look for the people walking around nowadays saying, “We told you so.”

Travis Rowley
RI Young Republicans
Chairman

From Friday, August 21, 2009

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 21, 2009

CONTACT – Travis Rowley
travis.rowley@rhodeislandyr.com

RI Young Republican Chairman calls for honesty and clarification from RI Democrat Party Chairman Bill Lynch

PROVIDENCE – After Chair of the RI Young Republicans Travis Rowley was forwarded an email that originated from the URL name “acorn.org” – the website of the famously corrupt community organizing group ACORN – he informed his party members of the email’s instructions to dishonestly infiltrate Rep. James Langevin’s town hall meeting on Wednesday, August 19th.

While ACORN was busy denying being the originator of an email that bore its URL name – “acorn.org” – the Chairman of the RI Democrat Party Bill Lynch also came to ACORN’s defense by accusing the RI Young Republicans of coordinating a fraudulent email operation on the Dan Yorke Show on August 19th. However, Mr. Lynch was informed on the Dan Yorke Show that, a fabricated email or not, the RIYRs had only forwarded an email that they themselves had previously received from someone else – that they certainly were not the entity that created the email. Chairman of the Young Republicans Travis Rowley had provided the Dan Yorke Show with a copy of the email the Young Republicans had received.

But Mr. Lynch would have nothing of any accurate information that could injure his plans to smear Republicans as liars. “Well, we’ll let your listeners decide,” was Lynch’s reply to Dan Yorke’s enlightenment of the situation. An “Oh, I didn’t realize that” might have been more appropriate.

On the same day as Lynch’s radio appearance, Lynch continued his operation to defend the eminently treacherous ACORN, and smear his political opposition. Lynch released to the media, and to his constituency, a press release that informed them that Rowley had “manufacture[d] a fake email as a desperate attempt to excite their right wing base,” and called on RNC Chairman Michael Steele and RIGOP Chairman Gio Cicione to renounce Rowley’s “false email campaign.”

Rowley has responded by saying, “I’m disappointed that Chairman Lynch would perpetuate a damaging myth concerning my integrity, even after learning that I had not fabricated anything. And that all the evidence still points to the likelihood of ACORN’s email being authentic.”

Rowley continued. “Rhode Islanders deserve party leaders that honor the truth over political power. They should want nothing to do with an individual who cares little about the facts, but rather is infected with political instincts that instruct him to besmirch anyone who is willing to stand up to his all-powerful political machine – or in this case, an intrusive health care reform measure that just may be the nation’s largest leap toward socialism since the New Deal.”

“Now exposed as someone who is willing to disregard the truth in order to advance a political agenda behind the nation’s back, I think it’s time for Mr. Lynch to come clean, and admit his mistakes. It matters little to me if Mr. Lynch insists that his press release was crafted before his knowledge of my innocence in this matter. I would still maintain that a clarification and an apology should have been issued. And there hasn’t been any such action on Lynch’s part.”

“To be clear, this isn’t a call for Mr. Lynch to resign. If Democrats insist on electing conniving party hacks as their leaders, then that’s their business. All the better for Republicans.”